Regardless of whether your data warehousing (DW)/business intelligence (BI) team is dedicated to Scrum, a fan of Kanban, or focused on XP, “Agile” in any form calls for small increments of potentially deployable results – which means that QA is essential on a regular, frequent basis. As we develop these small increments, we need to not only test the new development, but also regression test what we’ve already built. Our test suite grows larger with each iteration, and manual testing quickly becomes infeasible. Agile requires that we automate our tests so that regression testing doesn’t become a development bottleneck.

Test automation is one of several key technical enablement practices that allows teams to be more successful in their agile journeys. While there are lots of test practices and automation tools out there for software development teams to leverage, very few are targeted to data-related development and testing. Agile analytics practitioner Lynn Winterboer and DW/BI architect Cher Fox will share essential agile test foundations and data-focused test automation technologies to help data warehousing and business intelligence teams get a leg up on this important agile practice, including a demo of how this works!

We have listened to all your comments and feedback, and after a lengthy search we have found a new home for Training Days 2018 — the Westin Westminster.

They are excited to host our event and are working closely with our event planner to make this our best conference yet.

Approximate dates to watch for leading up to the conference…

1) Call For Papers – opening in August 2017 2) Paper selection – early October 2017 3) Initial Agenda – published by late October 2017 4) Registration – opening by November 2017 (if not sooner) 5) Seeking volunteers – by January 2018